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The Last Interview with Lee Eo-ryeong, the intellectual of the times, and Kim Ji-soo from "Interstellar." The final life lesson on life and death This book contains the wisest stories about life and death told by Lee Eo-ryeong, the representative intellectual of this era. The teacher, who faced death after a long battle with cancer, touches on a variety of topics, including love, forgiveness, religion, and science, and conveys to us in a low, resonant voice that “death is in the midst of life.” In the fall of 2019, the article “Lee Eo-ryeong’s Last Interview” from “Kim Ji-soo’s Interstellar” was published, and people cheered for Lee Eo-ryeong’s message that “My life was a gift.” This interview, which garnered over 7,000 comments and became a hot topic, led to further interviews to reveal his deeper final story, and gave birth to this book. In sixteen interviews conducted over the course of a year, the Master introduces readers to his new friend, Death, and talks about "death in life" or "life beside death." When his students ask him about life and death, Master Lee Eo-ryeong gives them answers filled with metaphors and analogies, and as a life teacher, he pours out everything he has for his students who will remain in the world. This book, filled with the "rhetoric of the will," is the final story of a master living in the face of death, and will be the wisest answer to life for the remaining generations. |
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Prologue To you who need a teacher
1.
Again, Last Interview
Arm wrestling with darkness / The soul enters only when the mind is emptied / Death is like a tiger coming out of the cage and pounces on me / God's calling to Nietzsche / There is nothing to fear if you think with your own head / The most important thing is emptiness / Read like a cow eating grass
2.
Beware of big questions
Last or Endless / The Lie Called a Will / Beware of Big Questions / Tears in Broad Daylight, Death is the Climax of Life / Writing Takes You One Step Further from the Cliff / Never Send a Letter Written at Night
3.
The opposite of truth is forgetting
Writing when you can't write / Death is a glass bowl that rattles in your pocket
4.
So I was lonely
A person with bad luck is not born into this world / The beginning of wisdom is accepting fate / To feel fate is to see a crow at midnight
5.
The sense of orphanhood drives us forward
The Fool Solomon, the Lies of Fools / The Joy of Still 'Not Knowing' / Those Who Punish the Sea for Storms / Defy Gravity and Go Against the Waves
6.
Man with a handle, man without a handle
There is truth in 'case by case' / I don't know the pain of others / A man with a handle, a man without a handle
7.
Hell of the roots, heaven of the roots
Maybe we're all rooted in the blue / We have no choice but to memorize the multiplication table / The first snow that fell overnight, a dazzling coup / The last dance is with me
8.
The place of death is not a cliff, but home.
To make a profit, start with what interests you / Life is not a panorama, but a single frame / On love and its loneliness
9.
The Uselessness of a Fool
The Prodigal Son Returns / Live Like a Fool / Beware of People with Faith / Dreams Are Not Made, They Are Persisted / The Dilemma of the Faithful Slave
10.
Do you want to hear about pain?
How do we react in the face of chaos? / Am I a water jug, a bucket, or a stone? / Those who have wounds also have bows. / The movement of the soul is only seen in tragedy. / A human is a pencil with an eraser. / Will a human die as an angel or a devil?
11.
A drop of the teacher's tears
When do tears fall? / Insight is beyond our ability. / God suddenly overwhelms us, just as light overwhelms us like water. / From spirituality to intelligence.
12.
A dazzling day
Who will become a beast and who will become a superman? / Humans cannot be changed by others / Job and the state of self-sufficiency
13.
The dying man with wisdom
The Time of Little Deaths, Stillness / Four Eyes / The Wise or the Mad
14.
Another spring
The language of consciousness, the language of truth, goodness, and beauty / The way of money, the way of blood, the way of language / Who will forgive whom?
15.
Another Summer - Be Fruitful and Prosper
The snake's tail and the old paper / The leader is a thief, the one who links your neck and mine / The shepherd, the greatest life capital of mankind
16.
Farewell
The first bird to raise its head at dawn, not diligence but sensitivity / The saddest thing is not being able to say that back then / The last gift
Epilogue
Last Interview: "While Waiting for Death, I Learned the Mystery of Birth"
1.
Again, Last Interview
Arm wrestling with darkness / The soul enters only when the mind is emptied / Death is like a tiger coming out of the cage and pounces on me / God's calling to Nietzsche / There is nothing to fear if you think with your own head / The most important thing is emptiness / Read like a cow eating grass
2.
Beware of big questions
Last or Endless / The Lie Called a Will / Beware of Big Questions / Tears in Broad Daylight, Death is the Climax of Life / Writing Takes You One Step Further from the Cliff / Never Send a Letter Written at Night
3.
The opposite of truth is forgetting
Writing when you can't write / Death is a glass bowl that rattles in your pocket
4.
So I was lonely
A person with bad luck is not born into this world / The beginning of wisdom is accepting fate / To feel fate is to see a crow at midnight
5.
The sense of orphanhood drives us forward
The Fool Solomon, the Lies of Fools / The Joy of Still 'Not Knowing' / Those Who Punish the Sea for Storms / Defy Gravity and Go Against the Waves
6.
Man with a handle, man without a handle
There is truth in 'case by case' / I don't know the pain of others / A man with a handle, a man without a handle
7.
Hell of the roots, heaven of the roots
Maybe we're all rooted in the blue / We have no choice but to memorize the multiplication table / The first snow that fell overnight, a dazzling coup / The last dance is with me
8.
The place of death is not a cliff, but home.
To make a profit, start with what interests you / Life is not a panorama, but a single frame / On love and its loneliness
9.
The Uselessness of a Fool
The Prodigal Son Returns / Live Like a Fool / Beware of People with Faith / Dreams Are Not Made, They Are Persisted / The Dilemma of the Faithful Slave
10.
Do you want to hear about pain?
How do we react in the face of chaos? / Am I a water jug, a bucket, or a stone? / Those who have wounds also have bows. / The movement of the soul is only seen in tragedy. / A human is a pencil with an eraser. / Will a human die as an angel or a devil?
11.
A drop of the teacher's tears
When do tears fall? / Insight is beyond our ability. / God suddenly overwhelms us, just as light overwhelms us like water. / From spirituality to intelligence.
12.
A dazzling day
Who will become a beast and who will become a superman? / Humans cannot be changed by others / Job and the state of self-sufficiency
13.
The dying man with wisdom
The Time of Little Deaths, Stillness / Four Eyes / The Wise or the Mad
14.
Another spring
The language of consciousness, the language of truth, goodness, and beauty / The way of money, the way of blood, the way of language / Who will forgive whom?
15.
Another Summer - Be Fruitful and Prosper
The snake's tail and the old paper / The leader is a thief, the one who links your neck and mine / The shepherd, the greatest life capital of mankind
16.
Farewell
The first bird to raise its head at dawn, not diligence but sensitivity / The saddest thing is not being able to say that back then / The last gift
Epilogue
Last Interview: "While Waiting for Death, I Learned the Mystery of Birth"
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Into the book
At this very moment, I extend an invitation to this special class to you who needs a teacher.
A comforting voice, a scolding voice, a kind voice… I hope that the voice of my teacher, Lee Eo-ryeong, that I have heard, will also ring refreshingly in your ears at every turn.
--- p.8
“Every time a movie ends and the ‘end’ mark is put on, I think,
If it were me, I would put a flower bud there.
Then, someone could come to the place where it was thought to be over and the story could start again at any time.
Just as the last interview at that time was not the end, it continued on to the current last interview.
“That’s life.”
--- p.47
“There are crows at night, and the crows of the night cry, but we cannot see the crows or hear their cries.
But even though we may not feel it, the midnight crow certainly exists.
That's fate.
Birth, meeting, parting, death… … these things, if we listen closely to the crows at night, we can feel our destiny at that moment.”
--- p.86
“We will never know others.
You just think you know.
No matter how much I love my mother, there is a thin barrier between us.
I can never be a mother and I can never be a mother.
Even though I love you more than life itself, my mother's and my pain are separate.
Because of the thin film that forms between existence and existence.
But we pretend as if that is not the case.
“Like, ‘I can be you.’”
--- p.120
“I heard that right before you die, your life unfolds before your eyes like a panoramic film.”
“No.
Life is not a panorama.
It's a frame of one cut.
When you connect each precious scene cut by cut, it looks like a panorama.
Observations are made and relationships are formed within the frame of one cut.
“Some things that were not captured or thrown away are later reconnected and come back to me.”
--- p.155~156
Actually, I had no idea how the conversation between my teacher and I would go.
Even the teacher had no idea how our conversation would turn out.
As a thinker, he was always full of courage, and as a listener and organizer, I was sometimes flustered.
In the absence of any feedback, I trusted him to give me his most precious piece every Tuesday, and he trusted me to write the most 'moist' earworm.
--- p.241
“Look at the waves rising in the sea.
No matter how high the waves rise, they always return horizontally.
No matter how rough the sea is, there is something called level.
The sea is always moving, so it never has a level surface.
But there is definitely a surface to which the waves must return.
My death is the same.
It was a wave that moved endlessly, but it all returned to an equal level.
I've never seen it, but it's definitely inside me.
“Because that’s where I’m going back to.”
A comforting voice, a scolding voice, a kind voice… I hope that the voice of my teacher, Lee Eo-ryeong, that I have heard, will also ring refreshingly in your ears at every turn.
--- p.8
“Every time a movie ends and the ‘end’ mark is put on, I think,
If it were me, I would put a flower bud there.
Then, someone could come to the place where it was thought to be over and the story could start again at any time.
Just as the last interview at that time was not the end, it continued on to the current last interview.
“That’s life.”
--- p.47
“There are crows at night, and the crows of the night cry, but we cannot see the crows or hear their cries.
But even though we may not feel it, the midnight crow certainly exists.
That's fate.
Birth, meeting, parting, death… … these things, if we listen closely to the crows at night, we can feel our destiny at that moment.”
--- p.86
“We will never know others.
You just think you know.
No matter how much I love my mother, there is a thin barrier between us.
I can never be a mother and I can never be a mother.
Even though I love you more than life itself, my mother's and my pain are separate.
Because of the thin film that forms between existence and existence.
But we pretend as if that is not the case.
“Like, ‘I can be you.’”
--- p.120
“I heard that right before you die, your life unfolds before your eyes like a panoramic film.”
“No.
Life is not a panorama.
It's a frame of one cut.
When you connect each precious scene cut by cut, it looks like a panorama.
Observations are made and relationships are formed within the frame of one cut.
“Some things that were not captured or thrown away are later reconnected and come back to me.”
--- p.155~156
Actually, I had no idea how the conversation between my teacher and I would go.
Even the teacher had no idea how our conversation would turn out.
As a thinker, he was always full of courage, and as a listener and organizer, I was sometimes flustered.
In the absence of any feedback, I trusted him to give me his most precious piece every Tuesday, and he trusted me to write the most 'moist' earworm.
--- p.241
“Look at the waves rising in the sea.
No matter how high the waves rise, they always return horizontally.
No matter how rough the sea is, there is something called level.
The sea is always moving, so it never has a level surface.
But there is definitely a surface to which the waves must return.
My death is the same.
It was a wave that moved endlessly, but it all returned to an equal level.
I've never seen it, but it's definitely inside me.
“Because that’s where I’m going back to.”
--- p.291
Publisher's Review
Sixteen Tuesdays, sitting face to face with a teacher who had death at his side.
Lee Eo-ryeong and Kim Ji-soo's 'Last Interview'
In the fall of 2019, the article "Lee Eo-ryeong's Last Interview" from "Kim Ji-soo's Interstellar" with the words, "This will be my last interview" was published, and many people "reacted to Teacher Lee Eo-ryeong's message." The teacher's message, which looked back on death from the mystery of birth, saying, "My life was a gift," became a hot topic with over 7,000 comments, and with this response, reporter Kim Ji-soo started "a more in-depth last interview containing Teacher Lee Eo-ryeong's last story."
That is how 『Lee Eo-ryeong's Last Lesson』 was born.
(The full text of "Kim Ji-soo's Interstellar" and "Lee Eo-ryeong's Last Interview" is included as the final chapter of the book.)
In sixteen interviews conducted over the course of a year, “from the autumn leaves, to the winter mountains, to the plum blossoms of spring, and to the time of new green leaves in summer,” the teacher introduces his new friend, “Death,” and pours out all his wisdom “as if coughing up blood” “for the sake of the remaining generations.”
“Sometimes, the teacher’s health suddenly becomes unwell,” and there are times when he has to cancel interviews, but “every Tuesday,” he generously gives up his “most precious thing” for “readers who want to hear the truth of life from the side of the dying teacher.”
The master completed this book, which will remain as his “last will,” through numerous revisions and edits in order to fully convey his wisdom to his students who will read it.
“I am about to begin a very important conversation with you.
All of these are things I realized while wrestling with death and life.
Do you understand? It's like the spoils of war you received after defeating the Dark Arm."
_「Again, in the last interview」
“This book asks about death or life.
“It is a beautiful answer to a sad question.”
The conversation between Lee Eo-ryeong and Kim Ji-su, which covers a variety of topics including love, forgiveness, religion, science, dreams, and money in life and death, is full of wisdom that can be imparted only by a teacher who has lived facing death for a long time.
He teaches that “death is in the midst of life” by giving a metaphorical and allegorical answer to a disciple’s question about “the beautiful and inevitable death as an acceptance of life, not a disaster.”
“More than anything, my teacher wanted to teach me that death is in the midst of life.
In the fountain at noon, in the silence of midday, between the noisy playground and the empty classroom, in that moment when the cicadas cease their song… … we each pass through the thin membrane of life and death with our own sensitive skin.
He brought the damp and cheerful death under the midsummer sun and bathed it in light.”
_From "Prologue"
The Master also tells numerous stories filled with the “rhetoric of the will,” explaining “why the truth lies in each case, why life is a cut, not a panorama, why humans cannot be changed by others,” and talking about the truth of life he discovered while “choosing wisdom over peace” throughout his life.
“I will never die.
“I will always be there to write and speak to you whenever you need me.”
To those who set out to find their own path
A calm consolation from a teacher
Master Lee Eo-ryeong emphasizes to us that his death does not mean the end.
“Even if my body disappears, my words and thoughts remain,” so “I live that much longer.”
He says that writing and speaking are his “last hope,” and that while “for most people, death is the end,” for writers there is a “next step: writing about death,” and that he is “accepting everything that has happened to me very calmly” at the moment.
The Master is said to be “the one who gives life and death” to “tell us what death is.”
Just like Professor Morrie in “Tuesdays with Morrie,” teacher Lee Eo-ryeong includes his “last crumbs of wisdom” in this book for those who are wandering in search of their “own pattern.”
With a teacher like this, who wants his students to “exist with their own stories” even when they “lose their way,” perhaps we can “traverse this incomprehensible life a little less lonely.”
“Even as I write the final chapter, I still don’t know what the fate of this book will be.
However, I hope that this book will be remembered as the last flower held in your heart by the teacher who lived a beautiful and lonely life.”
_From "Farewell"
Lee Eo-ryeong and Kim Ji-soo's 'Last Interview'
In the fall of 2019, the article "Lee Eo-ryeong's Last Interview" from "Kim Ji-soo's Interstellar" with the words, "This will be my last interview" was published, and many people "reacted to Teacher Lee Eo-ryeong's message." The teacher's message, which looked back on death from the mystery of birth, saying, "My life was a gift," became a hot topic with over 7,000 comments, and with this response, reporter Kim Ji-soo started "a more in-depth last interview containing Teacher Lee Eo-ryeong's last story."
That is how 『Lee Eo-ryeong's Last Lesson』 was born.
(The full text of "Kim Ji-soo's Interstellar" and "Lee Eo-ryeong's Last Interview" is included as the final chapter of the book.)
In sixteen interviews conducted over the course of a year, “from the autumn leaves, to the winter mountains, to the plum blossoms of spring, and to the time of new green leaves in summer,” the teacher introduces his new friend, “Death,” and pours out all his wisdom “as if coughing up blood” “for the sake of the remaining generations.”
“Sometimes, the teacher’s health suddenly becomes unwell,” and there are times when he has to cancel interviews, but “every Tuesday,” he generously gives up his “most precious thing” for “readers who want to hear the truth of life from the side of the dying teacher.”
The master completed this book, which will remain as his “last will,” through numerous revisions and edits in order to fully convey his wisdom to his students who will read it.
“I am about to begin a very important conversation with you.
All of these are things I realized while wrestling with death and life.
Do you understand? It's like the spoils of war you received after defeating the Dark Arm."
_「Again, in the last interview」
“This book asks about death or life.
“It is a beautiful answer to a sad question.”
The conversation between Lee Eo-ryeong and Kim Ji-su, which covers a variety of topics including love, forgiveness, religion, science, dreams, and money in life and death, is full of wisdom that can be imparted only by a teacher who has lived facing death for a long time.
He teaches that “death is in the midst of life” by giving a metaphorical and allegorical answer to a disciple’s question about “the beautiful and inevitable death as an acceptance of life, not a disaster.”
“More than anything, my teacher wanted to teach me that death is in the midst of life.
In the fountain at noon, in the silence of midday, between the noisy playground and the empty classroom, in that moment when the cicadas cease their song… … we each pass through the thin membrane of life and death with our own sensitive skin.
He brought the damp and cheerful death under the midsummer sun and bathed it in light.”
_From "Prologue"
The Master also tells numerous stories filled with the “rhetoric of the will,” explaining “why the truth lies in each case, why life is a cut, not a panorama, why humans cannot be changed by others,” and talking about the truth of life he discovered while “choosing wisdom over peace” throughout his life.
“I will never die.
“I will always be there to write and speak to you whenever you need me.”
To those who set out to find their own path
A calm consolation from a teacher
Master Lee Eo-ryeong emphasizes to us that his death does not mean the end.
“Even if my body disappears, my words and thoughts remain,” so “I live that much longer.”
He says that writing and speaking are his “last hope,” and that while “for most people, death is the end,” for writers there is a “next step: writing about death,” and that he is “accepting everything that has happened to me very calmly” at the moment.
The Master is said to be “the one who gives life and death” to “tell us what death is.”
Just like Professor Morrie in “Tuesdays with Morrie,” teacher Lee Eo-ryeong includes his “last crumbs of wisdom” in this book for those who are wandering in search of their “own pattern.”
With a teacher like this, who wants his students to “exist with their own stories” even when they “lose their way,” perhaps we can “traverse this incomprehensible life a little less lonely.”
“Even as I write the final chapter, I still don’t know what the fate of this book will be.
However, I hope that this book will be remembered as the last flower held in your heart by the teacher who lived a beautiful and lonely life.”
_From "Farewell"
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Publication date: October 26, 2021
- Page count, weight, size: 320 pages | 480g | 135*210*30mm
- ISBN13: 9791170400523
- ISBN10: 1170400523
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